Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...
2024-12-18 06:47
Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness
A drm-intel-gt-next pull request was sent in today to DRM-Next of the latest batch of Intel kernel graphics driver updates destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle...
2024-12-18 06:23
SilverStone XED120S-WS Offers Mega Cooling For 4U Intel/AMD Workstations & Servers
A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling wa...
2024-12-18 04:00
Lenovo Legion Linux Driver Posted For Handling Power/Performance Settings
A patch posted on Tuesday for the Linux kernel would introduce new Lenovo Legion WMI driver options for supporting Lenovo Legion laptops as well as the Legion Go handheld gaming console to support different power/performance settings...
2024-12-18 02:00
Fedora proposes dropping Atomic desktops for PPC64LE
Fedora is proposing to stop building their Atomic desktop versions for PPC64LE. PopwerPC 64 LE basically comes down to IBM’s POWER architecture, and as far as desktop use goes, that exclusively means the POWER9 machines from Raptor Computing Systems....
2024-12-18 00:11
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AOMP 20.0-1 GPU Compiler Rebased Against ROCm 6.3, Brings SPIR-V JIT Offloading
AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...
2024-12-18 00:00
Marvel Rivals crosses 20 million players as NetEase readies winter celebration event
Marvel Rivals has just crossed another major milestone, this time blowing past 20 million players less than two weeks following its launch. A winter update is coming later this week too. Read more...
2024-12-17 23:50
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses will soon identify songs with Shazam
Meta this week announced new features coming to its smart glasses designed in partnership with Ray-Ban. will soon gain new AI capabilities as well as integration with Apple’s Shazam to identify songs. more…
2024-12-17 23:48
Emoji 16 Coming to Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04 LTS
A paint splatter, super-tired face, and a harp are among new emoji users of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS will be able to see and type after installing an update to the Noto Color Emoji font. Ubuntu, which has shipped this font by default since 2017, an...
2024-12-17 23:48
Ubuntu Update Adds Support for Unicode’s Newest Emoji
A paint splatter, super-tired face, and a harp are among new emoji users of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS will be able to see and type after installing an update to the Noto Color Emoji font. Ubuntu, which has shipped the font by default since 2017, is ...
2024-12-17 23:48
Ubuntu Adds Support for Unicode’s Newest Emoji
A paint splatter, super-tired face, and a harp are among new emoji users of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS will be able to see and type after installing an update to the Noto Color Emoji font. Ubuntu, which has shipped the font by default since 2017, is ...
2024-12-17 23:48
Threads testing new option to schedule posts, says it’s coming soon
Meta has been working on a lot of new features for Threads, its microblogging platform, and there’s another one coming soon. The company has now teased a long-awaited option that will let users schedule posts for a later time. more…
2024-12-17 23:17
Ubisoft stealthily adds Steam achievements to Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint
The two most recently released entries in the Ghost Recon franchise now touts Steam achievement support following a quiet update from Ubisoft. Read more...
2024-12-17 23:08
Helldivers 2's best new stratagem is the dumbest thing I've ever seen, but holy Liberty, it can wipe out armies in seconds
The best new stratagem in Helldivers 2 is its ridiculous Anti-Tank Emplacement. Here's why you need to get your hands on it as soon as possible.
2024-12-17 23:06
Over 8 billion game hours were spent with Blizzard in 2024
Blizzard Entertainment's President shares some light-hearted statistics from her first year at the helm
2024-12-17 23:02
JetBrains launches search portal for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries
JetBrains has introduced klibs.io, a web service intended to make it easier to find libraries for Kotlin Multiplatform, a project that allows developers to build cross-platform mobile, desktop, and web apps from the same code base. Now in an alpha sta...
2024-12-17 22:50